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Sonnie Carson [BGA] Ft. Killer Mike “Feet On The Ground”
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Ying Yang Twins “Up Remix (Radio Rip)”
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Hip-Hop Rumors: Lil’ Wayne The Movie Star?
Birdman is planning to expand into the world of film and plans to cast his “son” Lil’ Wayne as the star of the upcoming film, Rich Gang. Details about the film are sketchy, but it will be one of several film projects via Birdman’s latest business venture, Cash Money Films. Check out what he told XXLmag.com‘s Shaheem Reid about the upcoming film.
“We start shooting that in the fall,” Birdman revealed in New York City during a book release party for Cash Money Content author Wahida Clark’s, Payback Ain’t Enough. “That’s the whole team, that’s like a 2012 Balla Blocking. The Rich Gang movie is about the team. Everybody is going to be the star of it, but Wayne will be the center of it. It’s about the team, everybody that’s on the label.”
Birdman wouldn’t reveal if the film will be scripted or a documentary style film, but his confidence in his artist as actors seems very apparent.
“I would like them for just be themselves. I’m not gonna tell no n#### to go to acting school. Just be yourself. We’re excited as a brand about it. Tyga, everybody is like, ‘Stunna, let’s do a movie.’ We got a few of them lined up and we gonna shoot them.”
What do you think about Lil’ Wayne on the big screen?
BREAKING NEWS: Beastie Boys Member Adam “MCA” Yauch Dead At 47
(AllHipHop News) Beastie Boys member Adam “MCA” Yauch was pronounced dead at age 47.
The rapper was being treated for a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node.
MCA’s actual cause of death has not been revealed.
MCA co-founded the Beastie Boys in 1979 with Mike D, Mix Master Mike, and Ad Roc.
He is survived by his wife and daughter.
Last month, The Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but MCA was not present at the ceremony in Cleveland.
Alley Boy Ft. Veli Sosa & One Hundred “Make It Everyday”
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YG Ft. Tyga “Do It With My Tongue Remix”
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Jeremih Ft. Fabolous “Ahh Shyt”
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Rappers Tapped For Second Season Of VH1’s “Single Ladies”
(AllHipHop News) A variety of rappers will star in VH1’s second season of their original scripted series “Single Ladies.”
“Single Ladies,” which is executive produced by rapper/actress Queen Latifah, stars LisaRaye McCoy, Charity Shea and newcomer Denise Vasi, as single women in Atlanta searching for love, romance and relationships.
Season one of “Single Ladies” was a success, with an average audience of 3.1 million viewers.
Season two of “”Single Ladies” will feature rappers like Big Boi, T.I., Eve, Romeo and even Queen Latifah herself.
Other guests this season include Flex Alexander, Harold “House” Moore, La La Anthony, Lauren London, Michelle Van Der Water, Omar Gooding, Paula Patton,Tony Rock, William Levy and others.
Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, and Shelby Stone are executive producers of the TV show, for Flavor Unit Entertainment.
The second season of “Single Ladies” will debut on Memorial Day (May 28) in the United States at 9:00PM EST.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Is It Drake Or Common Who Is Making Serena Williams Swear Off Dating For The Next Decade?
Poor Serena Williams has a broken heart. In a recent magazine interview, Serena confessed that she was planning to be single for the next 10 years because dating just isn’t working for her. Check out what she said below:
“I have given up on dating; it just hasn’t worked out well for me. I’m a really emotional person. I give my all and everything. I do make mistakes — like every human does — but the last relationship just was too much of a heartbreak for me. I just can’t go through that anymore. It was hard. I just have to remove myself from that atmosphere for about the next decade or so I can’t get involved.”
Okay, so was it Drake that broke her heart or Common? Considering that Common still speaks so highly of her, I put my money on Drake being the culprit.
Around the time that Drake started seeing Dollicia Bryant, Serena was caught airing out her hurt feelings on Twitter, tweeting:
“I tried. Hard I’ve been doing everything I can to bite my tongue…. But….But really?? Shocking. Like really, really???”
Who do you think broke Serena’s heart?
Mann “Yump Danie ls Freestyle”
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JR Writer “Get In Tune Freestyle”
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Flo Rida: (Electronic) Dancing All the Way to the Bank
It seems like Electronic dance music has been making its way into Hip-Hop for some time now. Gradually over the course of Hip-Hop’s life, the “four to the floor” style of music has traveled to clubs across the world, computers in our homes, and on the commercials that play every day on our TVs. Championing this dance-inspired style of Hip-Hop and seamlessly making the transition to more dance-inspired records has been Miami’s Flo Rida.
While he was bred in the MIA (and his name proudly bears his home state of Florida), it’s difficult to put Flo Rida in a box as simply a Florida artist. Flo’s sound is worldwide and appears to have no boundaries. From Europe to Asia to Australia, Flo Rida is collecting big checks for big shows that are paying for a lavish lifestyle that anyone would desire. With endorsements, live television appearances on “Wrestlemania”, “The Voice”, and Google Upfront 2102, it’s difficult to see how Flo isn’t winning.
In this exclusive sit down with AllHipHop.com, Flo Rida explains his move to (EDM), how he is brushing off recent lawsuits, his work with Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne, and details on his new label, IMG International Group:
AllHipHop.com: First off, how’s everything going with Poe Boy? How have the international concerts been? Seems like you are always over the place, homie….
Flo Rida: Oh, man, you know it’s great. It’s just amazing, I actually just did a tour with Pitbull out in Canada. You know I started my new label the IMG International Group, and I brought my artist Tyler Maderos out there, who is from Canada. He came out and rocked the crowd; he actually has a lot of fans out there. I actually went out to Australia recently and did a bunch of big shows and things like that, and I just shot my video for “Whistle” in Acapulco, Mexico, and I’m just gearing up for more places to be on tour.
AllHipHop.com: Speaking of international shows, can you comment on the lawsuit for $80,000 by the promotional company, Fat Butta, in Australia?
Flo Rida: Yeah, man, for the most part Australia went well, but, man, you know a lot of times anyone can come up and say anything and get everyone’s attention when it comes to just being an artist. I’m just happy that none of it is true, and it’s all about what happens in the end. I’m just happy it’s not true, and lot of times, promoters try to jerk you and they are called “janky promoters,” man.
Flo Rida: Wild Ones ft Sia
AllHipHop.com: [laughter] I guess that just comes with the territory when you’re getting $80,000 per show in the first place.
Flo Rida: Yeah, man, you know that’s just somebody trying to take advantage of me having #1 records, and they just want to bring our stuff in the negative, and they feel like they should pay you a certain amount of money, and they feel like they shouldn’t give you a ride to the venue. Maybe they thought that I should have brought my Bugatti to Australia, and that I could have brought my own car. With that being said, I think that says a lot.
AllHipHop.com: I assumed your answer would be somewhere along those lines [laughter]. Tell me about the video in Mexico for the new single, “Whistle.”
Flo Rida: Yeah, it was just amazing. It was the whole Poe Boy fam, as well as the IMG. We all went out there private jet style, and it seemed like the whole city came out to support the video. It was like the whole Poe Boy family – Billy Blue, Brisco, Wild Child, Stacy, and everyone – came out there, and we just enjoyed ourselves for two days, man. This record is going to be one of my biggest records yet. You guys will get a chance to see that video in a month or so.
Flo Rida – Whistle [Audio]
AllHipHop.com: Talk to me about what you have planned for “The Voice”.
Flo Rida: Oh yeah, I’m actually supposed to go on “The Voice” real soon and perform. I’m looking forward to that, and I’m gonna bring my band and everything.
AllHipHop.com: You have a live band? How many people are in your band?
Flo Rida: Yeah, man, I have five people in the band.
AllHipHop.com: It just seems like right now you have reached the point in your career with the Google Upfront event, “The Voice”, and “Wrestlemania 28” with MGK, that you are really out there. How does it feel to be on that platform?
Flo Rida: I mean, it’s just amazing because I definitely work hard. You know they say, if you work hard, you can play hard, and so I’m definitely enjoying it, as well as inspiring artists signed to my record label. You look back to when I didn’t have a record deal, to when I was walking 20 miles to take my demo certain places, taking the Greyhound to L.A., and living on the streets. It pays off when you work hard and when you have a passion and you believe in yourself and when everyone else might not believe in you.
AllHipHop.com: What do you think was the defining moment in your career, when your career sort of tipped the scale so to speak, and you really took your career to the next level?
Flo Rida: When I got a chance to run into my manager, Freezy and E-Class, who is the CEO of Poe Boy Records. You know those guys believed in me, as well as my parents.
Flo Rida: Good Feeling
AllHipHop.com: Ok, that’s what’s up, man. Now heading into the realm of the studio, you have a project coming out this summer right?
Flo Rida: Yeah, man, we still working on the name of the album and everything, but yeah, it’s going to be coming out real soon.
AllHipHop.com: Ok, so you’re still working on the name, huh?
Flo Rida: Yeah, we got the records, but as far as the name we still working on that. So far my boy Lil’ Wayne is on the album, he was on my first album. LMFAO is on the album, Sia who is on the record, “Wild Ones”, which is doing amazing, it’s #1 all over the world. As well as the song “Good Feeling,” featuring the late great Etta James, just to name a few.
AllHipHop.com: One thing with your music is that you can tell there is a heavy influence of electronic dance music (EDM). Can you talk about that and how that style of music has influenced your music?
Flo Rida: For the most part, I just loved music in general growing up in Miami where there’s various different ethnicities, and I got a chance to choose from the music culture, from the Haitians, to the Jamaicans and the Latinos, and everything like that. So to transition over to Spanish music and everything, it really wasn’t that hard, because I had to be versatile being in Miami. I might receive a beat from somebody, and being an artist without a record deal, I had to be able to spit to different types of music, so now to me, it’s something that’s just natural now.
AllHipHop.com: Right. Now, recently, Drake came out and made statements about electronic dance music, saying that it “lacked integrity,” and that it didn’t have as much soul as he would like, just to paraphrase. Do you feel like EDM has more soul than people give it credit for?
Flo Rida: I mean, anything that I do, I gotta put some soul in it. But for the most part, to each his own. You can’t knock a man for what he feels. It’s freedom of speech.
AllHipHop.com: Are you fan of Drake’s music?
Flo Rida: Yeah, I’m a fan of Drake’s music.
AllHipHop.com: Oh ok, that’s what’s up. One thing that’s going to be really big is that you just remixed a Lady Gaga song. How did that come together?
Flo Rida: Well, I actually just did a remix to the record. You know for the most part, I talk to some people when I do records and/or we chop up the business, but on that record in particular, I just did the record.
AllHipHop.com: Will you be having more work with her [Lady Gaga] in the future?
Flo Rida: I mean, I don’t mind. I worked on the album on her first album, Starstruck. If she’s ’bout it, then I’m with it. We gonna see what’s up.
AllHipHop.com: As far as some of the tracks that may have more of a Hip-Hop feel than the ones that are more dance-inspired, can you tell me which ones you think that real Hip-Hop heads are going to be diggin’.
Flo Rida: It’s a couple of them. I got a record with Lil’ Wayne that shows the versatility of both, and then I got a record on the album that has more of an urban feel on there’s that pop edge to it, where I’m singing on the record, and my rhyme pattern is definitely something of my early work.
AllHipHop.com: It’s cool that you are expanding the genre of Hip-Hop to different directions beyond what people traditionally think that it is. A lot of times Hip-Hop can be about different things at times, so it shows courage to step out there, and you are winning at it, getting big shows and endorsements. Definitely congrats, bro.
Flo Rida: For the most part I think it takes courage for the newer artists, because I am one of the first artists to do it how I am doing it, and for me, it didn’t take courage. It was natural, it was just for me being more versatile.
LADIES! Kevin McCall Works Out Behind The Scenes of His “Naked” Video
Whoa, Nelly! Apparently hard work pays off!
Singer Kevin McCall lets the cameras behind the scenes to catch his workout session before the shooting of the video for his first single, “Naked”. And it seems he’s got muscle on the mic and in the gym, too.
“Naked” features G.O.O.D. Music’s Big Sean, while the video is directed by a multi-talented Chris Brown.
Follow Kevin McCall on Twitter (@KevinMcCall).
Hip-Hop Rumors: Did Lil’ Wayne Get $150 Milli To Re-sign With Cash Money?
Birdman said it himself: “There is no Cash Money/Young Money without Lil’ Wayne.”
So, it comes as no surprise that Birdman pulled out all of the stops to re-sign the star, giving him a rumored $150 million, four-album record deal. Although Birdman wouldn’t confirm the sum, he did tell MTV that, “It’s probably the biggest deal ever in urban music.”
“I’m blessed to even do that,” Birdman said of the rumored figure. “Whatever my son want, he can get. It’s all his anyway, so it don’t really matter to me.”
Daily Word: Keep Dreaming!!
TGI…Everyday my Dreamers and Doers!
Welcome to the wrap up of this wonderful week! We had our ups and downs, but the fact that we are still here communicating with each other is a clear indication that we came out on top! Today’s Daily Word is dedicated to dreaming!
Dreams are the fruit of life! They are what gives life meaning, and what makes it worth living! When you stop dreaming, you lose a piece of you that is vital for growth and happiness! The hope for future achievement makes any obstacle seem small, because your reward is greater! Caution to those who allow the everyday ups and downs of life deter them from dreaming grand dreams! You can do anything you want in life with no compromise! It takes belief, commitment, determination, and action but also the will to never give up!
Keep Dreaming! If your dream seem crazy, unrealistic, impractical, or all of the above , then know that you are on the right path! Nothing can and will stand in the way of a dreamer who refuses to let go of that dream! The power you possess is stronger than any force imaginable! Hone in on that power and make great things happen!!
-Ash’Cash
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” -Langston Hughes
“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” -Sigmund Freud
“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.” -Oscar Wilde
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” -Joseph Campbell
“You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.” -Napoleon Hill
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart…. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
“Never waste your dreams by falling asleep. Never again.” -Eugène Lonesco
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” -Ray Bradbury
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Ash’Cash is a Business Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Financial Expert and the author of Mind Right, Money Right: 10 Laws of Financial Freedom. For more information, please visit his website, www.IamAshCash.com.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Joe Budden Wants Slaughterhouse LP Pushed Back
This is different. Typically artists are rushing their labels to release their albums or complaining about sitting on the shelf, well Slaughterhouse’s Joe Budden is not your typical artist. In a recent interview with Jenny Boom Boom, Budden expressed his desire to have the album pushed back to a later release date. Check out what he said about it below:
“I’m hoping it gets pushed back to July,” Budden said. “I feel like when it’s your major label debut, more time, in this instance we’re only talking about two and a half weeks, that is important to me. The more time the better. It’s more time to prepare. … [The album’s] really good. It sounds big, large. If you listen to ‘My Life,’ that sounds grand. The music, the feel, that is the theme to me — it’s big. It’s triumphant. It’s introspective. It’s really good and it flows well.”
Slaughterhouse’s Shady Records debut, Welcome To: Our House is slated for a June 12 release. You can check out Joey’s full interview below:
Exclusive: Jet Life’s Curren$y Reveals “Stoned Immaculate” Tour and Album Details
(AllHipHop News) Jet Life Recordings CEO and founder Curren$y recently embarked on his “Stoned Immaculate Tour”, one that will make nearly 50 nationwide stops before its conclusion.
The tour also brings along his Jet Life Recordings family, including Mousa, Trademark da Skydiver, Young Roddy, Corner Boy P, Fiend, and Smoke Dza.
In a recent interview with AllHipHop.com, Curren$y talked about enjoying the overall success of his recent tours and the rapidly growing fan base across the country, despite being detained recently in Texas by the Dallas Police.
“I just said the other day, I am generally [pleased]. Yo, that’s crazy, that’s the last thing I said before the boys rolled on the bus. I tweeted, ‘I’m generally pleased with everything,’ and then Murphy came in,” Curren$y told AllHipHop.com. “Yo I never had a pair of handcuffs on me in my life, maybe in the bed with chicks… but that sh*t was terrible. I don’t wish that on nobody.”
The New Orleans bred rapper, who released seven projects in 2011 and 2012, also talked about his work ethic and his drive to continue to release music.
“It’s not work, see like it’s not work. Like I f*ckin think like, dudes like basketball players get basketball colored sh*t in their house and sh*t because they like to play basketball. It’s play basketball, it’s work, but play basketball. This sh*t is fun, I want to do it. It’s not work for them, it’s fun to break somebody’s ankles with basketball, just like it’s fun to be good at that sh*t, it’s fun to be good at rap,” Curren$y explained to AllHipHop.com.
“It’s nothing to me to put out 100 records tonight, and then go to sleep, and then once I think y’all know all words to that sh*t, then probably do this sh*t again, because I don’t have to go through some crazy process. I’m not sweating to write this sh*t, it’s nothing. I’m not even talking sh*t. Like, ’cause some people don’t even like my raps. People be like, ‘It sounds like he wrote that sh*t in five minutes.’ I did, that’s how I get down. I don’t feel like I’m doing work. The minute the sh*t feel like work, you supposed to quit.”
Curren$y’s latest album, The Stoned Immaculate, is available for pre-order now on his website, www.CurrensySpittta.com. Pre-orders include The Stoned Immaculate CD, an exclusive “Up In Smoke” Rolling Tray, and an instant, digital Mp3 download of “Fast Cars, Faster Women” featuring Daz Dillenger.
The Stoned Immaculate, set for release on June 5, features Wale, 2 Chainz, Wiz Khalifa, Pharrell, Estelle, Big K.R.I.T., and the Jet Life family.
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Hot 97 Announces Lineup For “Summer Jam 2012”
(AllHipHop News) New York radio station Hot 97 has officially unveiled their lineup for their 2012 Summer Jam music concert, which will be held on Sunday June 3, at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
This year, as they have done in the past, Hot 97 rounded up some of the top industry names to perform on the Hot 97 main stage.
The 2012 lineup includes Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Young Jeezy, J. Cole, Wale, DJ Khaled, Waka Flocka, Trey Songz, Maino, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, French Montana, Mavado, Tyga and “a colossal amount of surprise celebrity guests will conquer the main stage.”
“Boost Mobile is excited to be back as the presenting sponsor of Hot 97 Summer Jam 2012 for the ninth consecutive year and happy to be a part of bringing the show to fans across the country through the LIVE streaming of the show on June 3,” said Steve Gaffney, vice president-Lifestyle Marketing.
“This is truly the most anticipated concert in New York and as always Hot 97 does not disappoint by having the biggest names in Hip Hop perform,” Gaffney added.
Over 55,000 fans are expected to attend the concert, and event sponsors have announced that Summer Jam 2012 will be streamed live on Hot97.com in over 25 countries.
Tickets for Summer Jam 2012 can be purchased at a number of price points beginning with $45 and topping out at $175 for floor seats. A limited amount of exclusive HOT 97 Platinum Packages are available for $200.
Tickets for Hot 97’s Summer Jam 2012 are on sale now at www.Ticketmaster.com.